The Nagorno Karabakh Republic ("NKR") is
also referred to as the Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Region ("NKAR")
or the Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Oblast ("NKAO", the Russian
word "oblast" means "region").

The
current geographical territory of NKR does not include all of the areas
which were historically and ethnically considered as Armenian1
it does however include the territories of what was formerly considered
as the Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Oblast under the Soviet Regime, as
well as the Shahoumian region.

It is on these territories that the Republic of Nagorno
Karabakh was established. On September 2, 1991, the Joint Session of
Soviet People's Deputies of NKAR and the Shahoumian Region proclaimed
the establishment of the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh, pursuant to Article
3 of the "Law of the USSR on the Procedure of Cessation from the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics", adopted on April 3, 1990.
This Proclamation of Independence was based on the national referendum
held on December 10, 1991. The population of these territories participated
in the election of the state authorities, who are referred to as "elected
and other representative of Nagorno Karabakh" in the 1992 mandate
of the OSCE Minsk Group.

1
The territory historically and ethnically considered as Armenian
covers a considerably larger area, including the northern part of
Nagorno Karabakh where prior to 1988 the population was predominantly
Armenian.

Refugees and Displaced Persons
in Nagorno Karabakh

The Armenian population of Nagorno Karabakh reached
300,000-330,000 in 1918. Had conditions of consistent economic growth
and reliable security been ensured in the region, the Armenian population
of Nagorno Karabakh would have reached 700,000-800,000 by 1988. Between
1918 and 1920, a Turkish-Azeri campaign of ethnic cleansing was launched
against the Armenians in Nagorno Karabakh, resulting in the killing
of 20% of the population. In Shoushi alone, one of the largest cities
in the Transcaucasus and the capital at the time, 20,000 Armenians were
massacred by the Turkish-Azeri troops. Even after such atrocities, Armenians
still made up 95% of the population of the Autonomous Region (Oblast)
of Nagorno Karabakh at the time of its creation in 1923, whereas the
Azeris constituted only 3%. The region was renamed the Nagorno Karabakh
Autonomous Region ("NKAR") in 1936.

Due to such systematic discrimination and forced emigration
during the Soviet-Azeri regime, which lasted over 70 years, the growth
of the Armenian population in Nagorno Karabakh stagnated (currently
600,000 Nagorno Karabakh Armenians live in Armenia and the CIS countries);
proportionally, it even decreased - to 77% in NKAR. Whereas the number
of Azeri population in Nagorno Karabakh consistently increased under
the Soviet-Azeri regime, due to the influx of Azeris from Azerbaijan.

According to the official data of the 1989 USSR
census, the population of NKAR was 189,000, of which 145,500 (76.9%)
were Armenians and 40,600 (21.5%) were Azeris. Over 17,000 Armenians
(80% of the population of the Shahoumian region) and approximately 3,000
Azeris lived in the Shahoumian region.

The census, however, did not include 23,000 Armenian
refugees from Baku, Sumgait and several other cities, who, when
the census was being conducted in January of 1989, actually lived in
the former known as NKAR. These people did not have NKAR "registration"
(a stamp in the passports of all Soviet citizens indicating the place
of their permanent residence) and hence were considered to be living
in their previous places of residence.

Thus, the total number of the Armenian population
of both NKAR and the Shahoumian region was 185,500, of which Azeris
constituted 44,000, and the Russians, Ukrainians, Greeks, Tatars and
others- about 3,500 thousand.

In 1923, the regime in Moscow entrusted the Azeris
with the task of determining the borders of the Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous
Region, and the Northern areas of Nagorno Karabakh (regions mainly populated
by Armenian, such as the Shahoumian region), which were originally included
in the territories given to Azerbaijan by the Russian Bolsheviks in
1921, were not included in this newly established autonomous oblast.

In the 1930s, in an effort to dilute the overwhelming
majority of the Armenian population in the northern territories of Nagorno
Karabakh (such as Dashkesan, Shamkhor, Gedabek, and Khanlar regions),
the Azeris redrew the borders of Nagorno Karabakh, and these northern
territories which were densely populated by Armenians were divided and
included in the newly created administrative regions of the Azerbaijani
Soviet Socialist Republic ("AzSSR"). The ancient Karabakh
town of Gyanja - formerly Elizavetpol and then Kirovabad in Soviet times-
was part of these regions which were divided and included in the AzSSR.
Nevertheless, until 1988, Armenians constituted an absolute majority
of the population of Northern Karabakh, which included the mountainous
regions and partly also the foothills of the above-mentioned regions
of the AzSSR. In 1988, the number of Armenians living in this area was
as follows:

the Khanlar district

14,600

the Dashkesan district

7,300

the Shamkhor district

12,400

the Gedabek district

1,000

the city of Gyanja

48,100

Total

83,400

These figures demonstrate that the Armenian population
of Northern Karabakh alone was twice as large as the Azeri population
of the former NKAR. In the city of Gyanja alone there were7,000 more
Armenians than Azeris in the whole of the former NKAR, or 4 times the
number of Azeris living in the town of Shoushi.

By the end of 1988, the entire Armenian population
of Nagorno Karabakh (the NKAR, the Shahoumian region and Northern NK)
was 268,000.

The deportation of the Armenians of Northern NK started
in the autumn of 1988 and came to an end only after the initiation of
armed combat in 1991. The last Armenian settlements in Getashen and
Martounashen were ravaged in April-May, 1991, as a result of the joint
operation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan and internal
troops of the USSR. During this operation called "Ring," 24
Armenian settlements in Nagorno Karabakh were occupied by Azerbaijan
and their entire population was deported. Currently the overwhelming
majority of the refugees from Northern NK live in Armenia, some of them
are in Russia and only a few have returned to NKR.

During the military actions in the summer and autumn
of 1992, the Azerbaijani army completely took hold of the Shahoumian
region, approximately two-thirds of the Martakert region, as well as
some parts of Martouni, Askeran and Hadrout regions of NKR. As a result,
66,000 Armenians became refugees or displaced persons. After the liberation
of the greater part of the occupied territories (except for the Shahoumian
region and parts of the Martakert and Martouni regions) by the Defense
Army of Nagorno Karabakh, 35,000 refugees returned to NKR. However,
most of these refugees qualify as "displaced persons", since
either their villages were completely destroyed or they are sill under
Azeri occupation.

The total number of Armenian refugees from Nagorno
Karabakh is 114,000, of which 83,000 are from Northern NK, and 31,000
are predominantly from the Shahoumian and Martakert regions.

There are about 30,000 displaced persons in the
NKR.

From the 185,000 NKR Armenians in 1991, currently
there are 61,000 refugees and displaced persons from NKR proper, which
represents 33% of the Armenian population of NKR (1991 figures).

Information is based on the following sources:

The 1989 Soviet Union census

The Department of Statistics of the Oblast Soviet of the NKAO

The Regional Executive Committee of the Shahoumian
Region

The Committee on Refugees of the NKR

This means that one-third of the NKR population
are refugees or displaced persons.

Together with the refugees of Northern NK (see
above) the total number of refugees and displaced persons reaches 144,000,
which is 54% of the Armenian population of Nagorno Karabakh as a whole
(NKR and Northern NK), according to 1988 figures.

Thus, since 1988, every other Armenian from Karabakh,
who, at that time, lived in their Motherland, has become either a refugee
or a displaced person.

Although most of the Armenians who had lived in Baku,
Sumgait and several other towns and regions of Azerbaijan and became
refugees as a result of the conflict, are of Karabakh descent, we deliberately
limited ourselves to the geographic and demographic borders of Nagorno
Karabakh and do not speak here about this considerably large category
of Armenian refugees, which should become a subject of discussion between
Armenia and Azerbaijan. (More than 350,000 Armenians left Azerbaijan
and now live in Armenia, Russia, CIS and other countries)

When comparing the aforementioned figures for the
refugees and displaced persons from NKR, with the figures available
for Azerbaijan (please see below) it is clear that of the two conflicting
parties, NKR has suffered an incomparably more difficult situation in
terms of refugees and displaced persons. It should also be added that
contrary to the fact that Azeri refugees receive humanitarian aid from
international organizations, until recently, NKR did not receive any
assistance from such organizations for its refugees and displaced persons.

Occupied
territories of the NKR

By occupied territories of Nagorno Karabakh, the authorities
of the NKR mean the territories of the NKR, occupied by Azerbaijan.
As stated earlier, NKR does not cover the whole Armenian Nagorno Karabakh
in its geographic, historical and ethnic entirety, but only the territories
of the former NKAR and the Shahoumian region (see above), where the
authorities of the NKR had full control at the onset of the military
conflict.

As a result of military actions between Azerbaijan
and the NKR in 1992, the Azeri troops occupied and still hold approximately
750 sq. km, or 15%, of NKR territory including the whole of the Shahoumian
region (600 sq. km) and some parts of the Martakert and Martouni regions.

Azerbaijan

The Azeri authorities consistently, through state
propaganda and official statements, claim that 20% of Azerbaijani land
is occupied at present and there are more than 1 million refugees and
displaced persons. They claim that this situation is a result of Armenia's
aggression against Azerbaijan, as well as the seizure of both NK and
the adjacent regions by Armenia.

It should be noted that none of the UN Security Council
resolutions concerning the NK conflict contains any expression of "aggression"
by Armenia or demands that its troops be withdrawn from the territory
of Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh (see the 1993 UN SC resolutions
822, 853, 874, 884).

The Issue of the Occupied
Azeri Territories

According to the maps issued by the Azerbaijani officials,
the total area of the territories occupied by the Defense Army of Nagorno
Karabakh allegedly is 8,780 sq. km., the total area of the Azerbaijani
Republic being 86,600sq. km. Simple arithmetic calculation shows that
the seven regions adjacent to Nagorno Karabakh make up only 10% of Azerbaijan's
territory. Even if we were to consider the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh
proper as an "occupied territory," as it is officially claimed
by the leaders of the Azerbaijani Republic, the area would make only
13% and not 20% (Taking into account the territories that both Azerbaijan
and Karabakh have occupied from each other).

As stated earlier, none of the UN or OSCE documents
make any mention of "Armenia's occupation of the territories of
Azerbaijan." These are merely allegations made by the Azeri authorities
in their propaganda material.

Furthermore, the maps issued by Azerbaijan are, first,
drawn on a distorted scale, as Nagorno Karabakh and adjacent territories,
in comparison with the neighboring regions, are drawn larger than they
are in reality, and second, the line of contact between the Karabakh
and Azeri military is drawn more eastward than the real borders of conflict:
a fact which is easily verified when the Azeri maps are compared with
the military and other maps used by the OSCE Minsk Group. Notwithstanding
the above-mentioned distortions, the area of the occupied territories
is overstated.

Curing the military actions, the Defense Army of Nagorno
Karabakh seized 5 districts of Azerbaijani Republic (Lachin, Kelbajar,
Koubatly, Zangelan and Jebrail), as well as approximately 30% of Agdam
and Fizuly regions.

According to Azerbaijani data, the area and population
of the said regions are as follows:

District

Territory(sq. km.)

Population(thousand)

Kelbajar

1,936

50,6

Lachin

1,835

59,9

Koubatly

802

30,3

Jebrail

1,050

51,6

Zangelan

707

33,9

Agdam

1,094

158

Fizuly

1,386

100

Information is based on the following sources:

Data of the Ministry of Defense of the AR, disseminated
by the Embassy of the AR
in the Russian Federation in the autumn of 1994;

The total area of the first five districts is 6,330
sq.km. The total area of Agdam and Fizuly regions is 2,480 sq.km. However
the Defense Army of Nagorno Karabakh controls only 35% of Agdam and
25% of Fizuly regions, i.e. respectively 383 and 347 sq. km. Hence,
the figure of 8,780 sq. km. of occupied territories, claimed by the
Azeri side, is also a fabrication.

The total area of the territories of the Azerbaijani
Republic, controlled by NKR, is not 8,780sq.km. It is 7,059 sq. km.
which is 8% of the area of the former Azerbaijani SSR, i.e. it is 2.5
times smaller than 20%, a figure constantly mentioned by the leaders
and representatives of Azerbaijani Republic, deliberately misleading
the international community and world public opinion.

Whereas Azerbaijan occupies 15% of the territories
of NKR.

Refugees and Displaced Persons
in Azerbaijan

Between 1988-1989, 168,000 thousand Azeris left Armenia.
(These figured are based on the official figures for Azeris living
in Armenia in the beginning of 1988, although Baku arbitrarily speaks
of some 200 or even 250 thousand Azeris.) Most of these 168,000,
who left Armenia 8-10 months after of the pogrom of Armenians in Sumgait
and forced deportation of 350,000 thousand Armenians from the AzSSR,
were able to exchange or sell their houses, which were built in rural
areas. The rest received financial compensation (a total of 72 million
rubles or about 100 million USD) from the government of Armenia (to
date Armenian refugees have received no compensation).

Virtually all of the Azeri population, 40,600 people
or 21.5% of the population of the former NKAR (according to the 1989
USSR census) left former NKAR during the military actions in 1991-1992.
It should be mentioned that Azerbaijan deliberately overstates the number
of the Azeri population of the former NKAR, speaking of "60 thousand
people" or about "a third of the population."

The Azeri population of the Shahoumian region stayed
to live at their homes in all of the four Azeri villages situated along
the border, in the northern and eastern parts of the region (where the
Karabakh-Azeri front-line passed through in 1992-93). The Azeri population
living on the territories adjacent to the northern Nagorno Karabakh
and in the populated areas of the northern Nagorno Karabakh did not
suffer either; whereas 83,000 Karabakh Armenians were deported in 1988-91.
Moreover, more than 100,000 Azeri refugees were housed in the abandoned
homes and apartments of Armenians, who were driven out of the northern
part of Nagorno Karabakh. (According to the 1989 USSR census, the
average Azeri family in the AzSSR consisted of 5.6 individuals and the
average Armenian family in the AzSSR, 3.85 individuals. Moreover, as
a result of 70 years of discriminatory policies against Armenians in
AzSSR, there were many empty Armenian houses in Azerbaijan. The owners
of these houses had left for Armenia, Russia or other republics of the
USSR earlier.)

According to Azerbaijani data cited above, the population
of the seven districts that have been either entirely or partially occupied
by the Defense Army of Nagorno Karabakh, totaled to 483,900 in 1989.
Taking into account that the Agdam and Fizuly regions are occupied partially,
the total number of displaced persons from these regions constituted
about 420,000; of which 45,000, again, according to the Azerbaijani
data, returned to their homes in 1997. Thus, of the total number of
the inhabitants of the mentioned 7 regions, only 375,000 are refugees
and displaced persons (40,000 of these refugees and displaced persons
have left for Russia. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs
of the Russian Federation, 1,5 m. Azeris, citizens of Azerbaijan, currently
live in Russia.)

The total number of Azeri refugees and displaced persons
should be calculated by adding to the aforementioned figures the number
of refugees from Armenia (168,000, who, as stated earlier, either exchanged
their houses or received compensation for their property, and would
not qualify as "refugees") and from Nagorno Karabakh (40,000).

Thus, as a result of the NK conflict, there are
583,000 refugees and displaced persons in Azerbaijan, comprising 7.9%
of the officially declared population of Azerbaijan. Claims about "
a million refugees in Azerbaijan" are propagandistic falsification
like the claim about "20% occupied territories of Azerbaijan."

It should be recalled that one-third of the NKR
population are refugees and displaced persons. According to the data
from the Republic of Armenia, refugees make up 12% of the population
of Armenia. Apart from this, 300,000 individuals remained without shelter
after the 1988 earthquake, while blockade has been imposed on Armenia
by Azerbaijan and Turkey, which is one of the OSCE Minsk Group countries.

Main Comparative Data

NKR Territory
Occupied by AZERBAIJAN

Azerbaijani Territories
Controlled by the Defense
Army of NKR

15%

8%

Refugees and Displaced
Persons in NKR
(% of the Population)

Refugees and Displaced
Persons in AZERBAJIAN
(% of the Population)

33%

7.9%

NKR President Writes to UN Secretary General
on Territories and Refugees

President of the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh

August 17, 1997
Stepanakert

United Nations Secretary-General

cc: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
cc: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
cc: International Organization for Migration
cc: Inter-Parliamentary Union
cc: Parliamentary Assembly of the CIS
cc: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
cc: Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
cc: Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the Member States of the OSCE Minsk
Group

Excellency,

The lack of accurate data regarding the occupied territories
and the number of refugees and displaced person resulting from the conflict
between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan further complicates the settlement
process.
In an effort to conduct an aggressive information war, the Azerbaijani
authorities consistently disseminate inaccurate figures and data; and
these figures appear in mass media and sometimes even in the documents
of international organizations.

The use of inaccurate references only lead to incorrect
conclusions and decisions that may further aggravate the already complicated
situation faced by Nagorno Karabakh.

The enclosed document, which has been prepared on
the basis of objective analysis and with references to official sources,
aims at clarifying issues and contributing to a just settlement of the
Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

I remain, Excellency, at your disposal for any additional
or more precise information if any such need should arise.

Yours sincerely,

Leonard Petrossian
Acting President of the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh

The NK Border Changes and
Demografic Situation
in the 20th Century

The Autonomous Oblast was established in 1923, on
a portion of what is now known as Nagorno Karabakh. For centuries, this
territory to the north of the Araks river was referred to as "Nagorno
Karabakh" on geographic maps, prior to it being renamed to "Azerbaijan"
in the XX century. The "Azerbaijani Republic" emerged in 1918,
due to Turkish expansion in the Transcaucasus, and it included the vast
territory from Baku to Batoumi. Naming this territory "Azerbaijan",
which was the historical name for the northwestern province of Iran,
was also part of this Turkish expansionist policy.

In July 1921, the Caucasian Bureau of Central Committee
of the Russian Communist Party, decided to hand over Nagorno Karabakh
to the newly-formed Azerbaijani SSR. At that time there were no recognized
borders: neither the NKAO borders, nor the ones between Soviet Armenia
and Azerbaijan. The borders of provinces and regions in the Russian
Empire were defined based on the population residing within a specific
administrative unit; the names of provinces and regions were generally
based on the toponymy of the largest populated areas, situated within
a given administrative unit (for example, Elizavetpol - Elizavetpol
Province). During the short-lived independence of the Transcaucasian
republics between 1918-1920, the borders between them were not defined
due to territorial conflicts, including Azerbaijan's claims for a large
Armenian-populated territory, and consequently these republics were
not admitted into the League of Nations.

In early 1920's, when the Russian Bolsheviks were
deciding Nagorno Karabakh's fate, they used such terms as "mountainous
parts" of those regions of the Elizavetpol province, the territories
of which were completely included Nagorno Karabakh. This means that
they considered the geographic unity of Nagorno Karabakh.

Ethnically, since the ancient times Nagorno Karabakh
has been populated exclusively by Armenians, while bordering to it plains,
formerly Armenian-populated, in the late Middle Ages were subjected
to expansion by nomad-Turks. Since the nomads were only cattle-breeders,
ousting the indigenous Armenian population, they consequently settled
down on those lower territories, which were most suitable for cattle
breeding. Thus, already in XVI-XVII centuries, there took place the
separation of the ancient Armenian province of Artsakh, which embraced
the interfluve between Kura and Araks. It was divided into the Armenian-populated
Nagorno Karabakh and the bordering plains, mostly populated by Turks.

Mirza Jamal Jevanshir was originally from Karabakh
and was one of the first Turkic-Azerbaijani historians. In mid-XIX century
he wrote (in Persian) about Karabakh's borders in his manuscript "History
of Karabakh". (The Russian translation was printed in 1855 in the
Tiflis-published newspaper "Kavkaz" (N61-69)). In 1959 the
manuscript was published in three languages in Baku: Persian and the
new translations were also available in Russian and Azerbaijani ("History
of Karabakh", Baku, Publishing House of the AzSSR Academy of Science,
Institute of History, 1959). Jevanshir wrote: "According to ancient
historic (books), borders of Karabakh vilayet are the following: to
the south -Araks river, from the Khudaferin bridge to Synykh kerpi,
which is now situated in the territory of Kazakh, Shamsaddin and Demirchi-Khasanly
districts. Russian officials call it the "Red Bridge" (it
is situated on the borders of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. - editor's
note). To the east - where river Kura joins the Araks river, near
the village of Javad, and flows into the Caspian Sea. The Northern border
of Karabakh and Elizavetpol (Ganja) to the river Kura is Geran river
and the Kura river, which runs along the border and reaches Araks river.
To the West are the high mountains of Karabakh " (p.63).

Thus, the ethno-geographic borders of Nagorno Karabakh
(based on the administrative borders of the former Azerbaijani SSR)
consist of not only the territory of the NKAO and Shahoumian region,
but also the Lachin, Kelbajar, Jebrail, Fizuly, Koubatly and Zangelan
regions (the last two regions partially), and in the North - mountainous
and foothill areas of Dashkesan, Khanlar, Shamkhor regions and partially
- Gedabek region of the former AzSSR. It is significant that in the
documents and materials prepared by the League of Nations and submitted
for discussion at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, these were the boundaries
defined for Nagorno Karabakh (see British Library Cataloguing in
Publication Data, Caucasian Boundaries: Documents and Maps 1802-1946).

It is noteworthy that in most documents issued between
1918-1920, when the Karabakh issue appeared on the world arena as a
territorial dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia, the terms "Armenian"
or "Nagorno Karabakh" were used (see Nagorno Karabakh in
1918-1923, Documents and Materials, Publishing House of Armenian Academy
of Science, Yerevan, 1992).

In the process of annexation of Nagorno Karabakh in
1923, in contrast to the previous decision of the Caucasian Bureau of
Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party, the AzSSR authorities
excluded a significant part of the NK territory in the newly established
autonomous region.. According to the same decision of the Caucasian
Bureau, the town of Shoushi was to become the capital of the autonomous
region. However, this decision also remained unimplemented by the Azerbaijani
authorities, since the leadership of Soviet Azerbaijan intended to preserve
the demographic situation: the Armenian massacres in March of 1920 left
Shoushi with a prevailing Azerbaijani population. In addition, Armenian
refugees were prohibited from returning to Shoushi, whereas an intensive
settlement of Azerbaijanis was implemented there.

Thus, most of the original historic and geographic
parts of Nagorno Karabakh were not included in the newly created Autonomous
Oblast. Specifically he territories in the north of the country - the
Shahoumian region (in 1988 more than 80% of its population were Armenians)
and the territories in the north, including parts of Dashkesan, Shamkhor,
and Khanlar regions, which until 1988 were densely populated by Armenians.
The Armenian population in the northern parts of Nagorno Karabakh was
approximately 83,000 people - more than twice the number of Azerbaijanis
in the NKAO. Between 1988 and 1991, the Armenian population of the northern
NK has been systematically and forcibly deported from places of their
permanent residence by Azerbaijani authorities.

The maps published in the USSR, illustrate that until
1936, AONK had common borders with Armenian SSR (the 1928 USSR Atlas,
Publishing House of the USSR Central Election Committee, Moscow, 1928).
On July 7, 1923, when Azerbaijan declared the creation of AONK, it also
declared the creation of an independent Kurdish district, known as "Red
Kurdistan", which linked Nagorno Karabakh and Armenia. Nevertheless,
in 1929, when the "Red Kurdistan" was abolished, its borders
were not documented in any published maps, nor in any decisions of the
AzSSR Central Election Committee (A. Bukshpan, Azerbaijanskiye Kurdy
(Azerbaijani Kurds), Baku, 1932). Simultaneously with the abolishment
of the Kurdish district, it was decided that its territories (now -
Kelbajar, Lachin, Kubatly and a part of Jebrail regions) would become
separate administrative units of the AzSSR.

Hence, a part of the AONK territory, which bordered
with Armenia, was excluded from the newly created autonomous region,
and consequently the Nagorno Karabakh Armenian Autonomy became an enclave,
deprived of a common borders with Armenia.

The ensuing demographic changes are shown in the tables
below:

NAGORNO KARABAKH AUTONOMOUS OBLAST

Population number
(in thousands of people)
according to 1970 census /Results of the 1970 Union-wide census,
vol.4, M., 1973, p.263-300/

Population number (in thousands of people) according
to 1979 census

Actual increase (in thousands of people)
for the period of 1970-1979

Estimated increase (in thousands
of people)
for the period of 1970-1979

Difference between estimated and actual increase
(in thousands
of people)